'Duck and green peas! For ever!' : finding utopia in Tasmania / Alison Alexander
- Bib ID:
- 7834303
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Alexander, Alison, 1949 September 23-, author
- Description:
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- Hobart, TAS : Fullers Publishing, 2018
- 202 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 28 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9780648218050 (paperback)
- Summary:
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"‘Duck and green peas! For ever!’ This was a convict girl’s version of utopia in Tasmania. A beautiful heart-shaped island in the southern sea, surely this was a good place to look for your heart’s desire. How many other people have searched for or stumbled upon utopia in Tasmania? Quite a few, as it turns out. They range from Aborigines to modern commune-dwellers, from scheming settlers to hopeful farmers, from young families escaping the devastation of war in Europe to those building a bomb-proof bunker in the Tasmania bush.They looked to find utopia in the most unlikely places – Port Davey, Elephant Pass, Jackey’s Marsh, Cygnet, Lake Pedder, Castra. Some hoped to bring about utopia by political means; some dreamed of individual utopias. Sometimes they succeeded. Sometimes they failed. This book tells their stories." --Back page.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Happy children of nature: the Tasmanian Aborigines
- 2. 'They glory in their misdeeds': heaven for crooks
- 3. 'I want for Nothing but my Liberty': utopia for some convicts
- 4. 'England with a finer sky': paradise for free settlers
- 5. 'An antipodean Garden of Eden': yeoman farmers and evangelists
- 6. 'Peace, purity and prosperity': utopia for, or without convicts?
- 7. 'Great, glorious and free?', independent Tasmania
- 8. 'Paradise is found!', the prosperous 1880s
- 9. In the doldrums: secessionists and yeoman farmers
- 'This romantic island, with its great wild beauty': five utopians
- 11. 'The glorious sunrise of socialism': socialists and communists
- 12. 'Great stride in harnessing of state's resources': the Labor Party and hydro-industrialisation
- 13. 'A fairytale country' - for some: post-war immigrants
- 14. 'A treasure far beyond money value': attitudes to the bush
- 15. 'Entrancing loveliness': Lake Pedder and other environmental battles
- 16. Seeking nirvana: alternative living
- 17. 'The envy of the world': Tasmania discovered.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Utopias -- Tasmania -- History
- Quality of life -- Tasmania -- History
- Aboriginal Tasmanians
- Convicts -- Tasmania
- Colonists -- Tasmania
- Environmentalism -- Tasmania -- History
- Immigrants -- Tasmania -- Attitudes
- Palawa / Tasmanian people (Tas)
- Tasmania -- History
- Tasmania -- Biography
- Tasmania -- Social conditions
- Tasmania -- Social life and customs
- Australian
- Available From:
- 00005307
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2018
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